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Unfortunately, we are left with the problem that it can be very hard to tell the difference between a bribe and a grease payment. The latter are an unfortunate
by LorenPechtel 5y ago
Unfortunately, we are left with the problem that it can be very hard to tell the difference between a bribe and a grease payment. The latter are an unfortunate reality that companies can't realistically function without--and not just in the third world.
- beaconstudios 5y agoThey're the same thing.
- LorenPechtel 5y agoNo. A bribe is a payment to get them to do something improper. A grease payment is to get them to do what they should have done anyway. They look the same on the surface but they're very different underneath. The former is illegal, the latter is legal (but good luck trying to show it's not a bribe when it happens in the US.)
- beaconstudios 5y agoIf you're paying an official personally to "fast track" an official process, that's a bribe. Grease payments are just a subset of bribery. Just because it's normalised in some countries, doesn't make it a different thing.